1 Kings 8:5-9

New International Version

⁵ and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing^(A) so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

⁶ The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant^(B) to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place,^(C) and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.^{(D) 7} The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed^(E) the ark and its carrying poles. ⁸ These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.^{(F) 9} There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets^(G) that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.